Fossil Factory
A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2002
112 pages
978-1-4616-6384-3 (ISBN)
Description
A fun and fact-filled activity book about discovering and collecting, about the history of the Earth, and the record of life we find on its surface, children will revel in this guide to over 50 sites where they can find something Paleozoic. Also included are a dozen amazing science activities and a complete guide to fossil hunting.
Ages 5-8
Ages 5-8
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The Fossil Factory
A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils
Book
07/2002
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
€13.00
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By Niles Eldredge; Douglas Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Dig In!
- How Animals Disappear
- A Grave Matter
- Hard Rock, Soft Rock
- Making a Good Impression
- Cast Party
- Out in the Field
- Collecting Dos and Don'ts
- Bumper Outcrops
- Bubble, Bubble, Soil and Rubble
- Fossil Spotting
- Digging Up More Facts
- Taking Care of Your Fossils
- The Elusive Dinosaur
- A Lucky Trip
- Once Upon a Time
- Here, Dino!
- Right from the Start
- Fossil Riddles (As Old as the Hills)
- Gondwana What?
- Bump and Grind
- Which Came First?
- Carbon Dating
- A Sedimental Journey
- Make Your Own Grand Canyon
- Cool Times
- The Continental
- Dinosaur Hunting
- Living Fossils
- Double Treat on the Beach
- Caught in the Act
- What, No Fossils Near you?
- Assembly Required
- In the Living World
- Skin and Bones
- Dinosaur Detectives
- Iggy Pop
- Stuck on Fossils
- The World's Biggest Model Airplane
- The First Fossils
- Climbing Our Family Tree
- Pure Shellfishness
- A Squirt of a Squid
- Trilobites
- Ex-animals
- Danger!
- It's Easy Being Green
- Green Slime
- Something Fishy
- Amphibious Landings
- Frog Babies
- Thick-skinned
- The Naked Egg
- The Oldest Trees
- The Age of Reptiles
- The Great
- The Terrible
- Neither Fish nor Fowl
- Meet the Duckbills
- Walking Tanks
- Say it with Flowers
- Were Dinosaurs Dumb?
- Gone!
- Meteors and Meat-eaters
- Going, Going
- What If?
- Mammal Time
- Our Nearest Relatives
- Lucy and the Fossil People
- Thrice the Rice
- Standing Tall
- Land of the Giants
- The First Americans
- Future Humans
- Appendix 1: Time Line
- Appendix 2: Hunting on Holiday
- Index
